Foundation or company fund Switzerland, Zug
Run by Ernst Goehner Stiftung
A Swiss family foundation that will pay for the development of a documentary, not just its shoot or finish, as long as the subject is Swiss and the first release is in Switzerland. There is no deadline; the file goes in five months ahead. Fiction is out, which keeps this one for documentary writers and directors.
Grant, amount not statedOpen to writers in SwitzerlandA writer with a producer or a production company
Applications taken any time
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Applications are taken at any time; decisions follow in the fund's own rhythm. complete applications at least five months before the project starts
Bundesamt für Kultur, BAK / Office fédéral de la culture (Swiss Federal Office of Culture)
Switzerland's federal money, with a CHF 30,000 screenplay grant at the writing end and production grants that reach CHF 1.2 million.
Cinéforom, Fondation romande pour le cinéma (the fund of French-speaking Switzerland)
The production money of French-speaking Switzerland, four sessions a year with 2027 dates already fixed.
Kanton Bern, Amt für Kultur (canton of Bern)
A cantonal fund with a writer-first first step: a Bern author gets CHF 5,000 or CHF 10,000 to write a treatment, paid out as soon as it is granted, then up to CHF 30,000 for the script.
Cinéforom, Fondation romande pour le cinéma (the fund of French-speaking Switzerland)
A top-up rather than a competition: when a Romand producer puts its own success credits into paying a writer, Cinéforom adds 60 to 80 percent on top, up to CHF 25,000, with no deadline and…
Artist Trust
Small, fast and plentiful: 65 Washington artists a year receive USD 2,500 toward a specific project, from research travel to a first draft.
ITVS, Independent Television Service
ITVS's development door, replacing its earlier diversity development fund: a small first payment to shape a nonfiction feature or web series for PBS streaming, with a few months of…
Latino Public Broadcasting
Documentaries and limited series about Latino life for national public television, funded from first research through the final mix.
Film Independent, with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Science on screen pays here: three cash grants a year for fiction projects about scientists or technology, awarded inside Film Independent's Episodic Lab, Producing Lab and Fast Track…